If I can see it, it's a failure
Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment.
Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.
What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.
A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.
Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over.
My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
Governmental subsidy systems promote inefficiency in production and efficiency in coercion and subservience, while penalizing efficiency in production and inefficiency in predation.
I am not sure if women are attracted to genius. Can you imagine the wise wizard winning the woman over the gallant swordsman? It seems rather otherworldly in more ways than one.
The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly harmonised; it is true to life. On the other hand, the intellectual attainments of the mere man of learning are like a large palette, full of all sorts of colours, which at most are systematically arranged, but devoid of harmony, connection and meaning.